Saturday, May 24, 2014

King Cobra (1999)

How bad is it? It had production problems and then got released in a rush because of "Anaconda."
Should you see it? Yes, it's a passable waste of time.

Scientists create a hybrid of a timber rattlesnake and an african king cobra (the fact that they're only asian is the smallest factual error of the film), with heightened aggression, which apparently also makes them huge and impervious to bullets. Erik Estrada has an embarrassing gay role. Hoyt Axton and Pat Morita go slumming in this film, which gets increasingly silly, improbable and stupid as it goes. The best part for me was having the mayor decide not to cancel the local beer fest just because people are getting killed by wild beasts; it's good to be mayor.

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